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Word: admit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must openly admit that my leadership was at fault," said the 69-year-old Generalissimo. But he added that he "could well understand the indignation of the masses" at the court-martial verdict that completely cleared a U.S. Army master sergeant in the shooting of a Chinese "Peeping Tom" before his house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: The Raw Nerve | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...challenging one of the most basic laws of all, the principle of equivalence. According to this rule, on which general relativity is built, a body's inertial mass (resistance to a push) is the same in a given gravitational field as its gravitational mass (weight). Morrison and Gold admit that every experiment tried so far has shown the two kinds of mass to be precisely equivalent, but they think the apparatus used may have been biased in favor of equivalence. Anti-matter,* they point out, is just as respectable as ordinary matter, but none of it exists in physical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Anti-Gravitation | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...play the tragedienne. Don't lie" -did Mamma finally admit what the whole Montesi clan had been trying to conceal-the fact that Wilma had often been invited out for rides by her Uncle Giuseppe, a 32-year-old government functionary who fancies himself a Don Juan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Regime & Uncle Giuseppe | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...They admit that MIT wage rates are "slightly" higher than those at Harvard, but point out that the University lacks the income from government contracts which make possible higher scales. "And don't forget that our wage agreement comes up for revision at the end of June," adds Thomas F. Stone, president of the HUERA...

Author: By Fred E. Arnold, | Title: A 'Cordial Invitation' for Harvard Employees | 5/28/1957 | See Source »

...caretaker peers through the peephole in the front gate of the walled villa overlooking Cannes, disappears, then returns to admit the visitor. A dark-haired, handsome woman in blue pants emerges from the big square house and says: "Picasso will be down in a moment." She is Jacqueline Roque. a 30-year-old divorcee who is Picasso's latest companion, and she speaks with the air of one announcing the approach of an emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Picasso PROTEAN GENIUS OF MODERN ART | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

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